Tate Modern‘s THE TANKS is new and first museum galleries dedicated to live art, performance, installation and film, opened on July 18 this year as a part of the London 2012 Festival and the museum’s expansion project phase I launched this summer. The 30-metre width & 7-metre height circular oil tanks, unused since the former Bankside Power station was turned into the art gallery, were transformed into this unique art space.

From July 28 to October 28, The Tanks is hosting 15-week festival programme of international performance, film, talks and live events, alongside works from the collection by pioneers of social performance (The Christal Quilt by Suzanne Lacy: 3rd photo from the top) and expanded cinema (Live Music by Lis Rhodes: 4th photo), as well as a major new commission from South Korean artist Sung Hwan Kim (1st photo below), who combines video and performance art, collecting images from Seoul, Amsterdam and New York. →full program

Inside was dark with no windows, and I felt like I was in a bunker. I am not a big fan of live art and film, as you usually can’t watch an artwork from the start unless you are lucky, and I have to check the schedule in advance for some works. On the day, we missed the performance of “Fase: Four Movements to the Music of Steve Reich” by Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, because it was full. It was a big disappointment, because we saw the performance Barbican Centre in the past and I loved it. But the concept of The Tanks is interesting, and I like Live Music by Lis Rhodes – it’s fun to see an interaction of constantly changing stripes projected on the screen and silhouettes of a person passing or standing in front of it.